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In 2017, the University of Notre Dame teamed up with the Trump-Pence administration in a secret settlement agreement to deny students and staff birth control coverage. This was happening at the same time the Trump-Pence Administration was issuing rules to allow virtually any employer to refuse to provide birth control coverage. In 2018, we sued, because birth control coverage shouldn’t depend on where you work or where you to go school. And on June 10, we’ll finally have our day in court: Alongside our partners at the Center for Reproductive Rights and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, we’ll be taking on the Trump-Pence administration and the University of Notre Dame in oral argument.
We’re going to court because everyone deserves access to birth control — but the Trump-Pence administration doesn’t seem to think so. According to Trump, if your employer or school professes religious or moral objections to birth control, those objections override your own decisions about birth control. According to Trump, your boss’ religious or moral beliefs are more important than your own. And the University of Notre Dame agrees, having taken advantage of the Trump-Pence administration’s policies to insert its own religion into the health decisions of its students and staff. That’s not okay. None of this is okay. That’s why we’re going to court.
Here are the five things you need to know about just how disturbing the Trump-Pence administration’s attempts are: